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- The prompts.exe program displays the current path in the upper right corner of
- your current screen. I have always found that displaying the path by using
- the DOS Prompt command to be annoying, (any psychology student out there want
- to probe that one?), and wrote this program to fulfil the needs of my superior
- (who likes the full path display using the prompt command) while removing my
- own personal tastes against using the prompt command. I install prompts by
- placing the following two commands in my autoexec.bat file:
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- prompts >nul [Throws away signon message]
- prompt $g [REDUCES dos prompt to just a > symbol]
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- Of course, prompts.exe must be in the current directory or in the path state-
- ment. (Memory usage for TSR is 1536 bytes.)
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- When the current drive is a floppy (Drive A: or B:), I have reduced the number
- of times the screen is refreshed because of the annoying dos call that accesses
- the drive to find out the current path. When the drive is not A: or B:, the
- screen refreshes normally (about once a second, for diskette drives, about
- every ten seconds.)
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- The path is not displayed when running a program, except some TSR's-like
- SideKick-path is displayed while the TSR is in the foreground. An unexpected,
- but desirable (undocumented?) feature.
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- Note that you can see what is underneath the path by holding down both shift
- keys at the same time.
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- Feel free to distribute the program, with this document, without charge (except
- for the media.)
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- Direct any comments, thousand dollar bills, etc. to:
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- Daniel K. Hollis
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- CS: 73026.3013
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